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6 years’ experience working with data. Expertise in quantitative modeling, growing people and making data-driven decisions. Currently working as a Research Associate (Ph.D. Candidate) at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences as member of both the Entrepreneurship & Data Science groups.
I am looking for a position where I can use the skills that I have developed during my years in practice and academia to lead projects in the frame of analytics. As BI developer in the Data Enablement team at FREENOW, I would be able to leverage my experience in teaching and applying data-driven techniques and would be able to solve the problems I most enjoy working on (technologies used mostly: R, SQL and Python).
Industry Experience
Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany 06/2018 - Present
Program Manager | Research Associate (Institute of Entrepreneurship)
Conducting collaborative research, teaching students, managing industry projects while pursuing independent research and further academic and data science related qualifications.
- Lead of B2B/B2C industry innovation projects (focus: digital transformation, big data analytics)
- Designed and conducted multiple lecture units and exams in entrepreneurship and data science
- Developed and implemented a Digital Teaching and Learning Ecosystem to teach classes remotely
- Supervised student theses, projects and internships
- Presented at international conferences and about to publish in related journals
Lufthansa Technik AG, Miami, USA & Hamburg, Germany 04/2017 - 03/2018
Master’s Degree Candidate (dept.: Closed Loop Supply Chain Management)
Created a custom AI-based solution for reducing cost & response time (in collaboration with IBM Watson).
- Communicated with stakeholders to define project parameters and keep them up to date on project status
- Optimized use of resources to complete projects ahead of deadline and under budget
- Designated resources, assigned tasks and monitored performance for each part of the project
Horváth & Partners Management Consultants, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany 10/2016 - 02/2017
Management Consulting, intern (dept.: Transportation, Travel & Logistics)
Worked as a PMO manager on a project for the development of new location concepts of a large European railroad company, replacing the entire existing infrastructure of this major corporate.
- Operational execution of PMO activities (reporting, budget tracking, preparation and follow-up of meetings)
- Assistance in establishing the project structure
- Preparation of profitability calculations and capacity / utilization analyses for the individual sites
AUDI AG, Neckarsulm, Germany 09/2013 - 12/2013
Process Optimization, intern (dept.: Body Construction A6/A4)
As coordinator of the Lean Manufacturing Team, I was responsible to help people to understand the Lean Management philosophy and the operational excellence approach of AUDI (Audi Production System, APS).
- Training and coaching of lean methods with focus on problem solving, logistics and process synchronisation
- Preparation, implementation and moderation of shopfloor management projects in direct and indirect areas
- Optimizing various processes via process mapping and value stream analysis
Fraunhofer institutes (ILT & IPT), Aachen, Germany 2013 - 2016
Student assistants
L’Arche Greater Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada 08/2010 - 08/2011
(Live in) Care Assistant (Alternative mandatory community service)
Teaching Experience
Data Science 10/2019 - Present
Designer & Instructor of multiple business oriented Data Science and Machine Learning courses:
- Data Science certificate program
- Business Decisions with Machine Learning
- Business Data Science Basics
- Building Business Data Products
Entrepreneurship & Innovation 10/2018 - Present
Teaching students skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up in varying classes:
- Startup Engineering
- Sustainable Entrepreunrship
- Technology Entrepreunrship
- Creation of Business Opportunities
Education
RMIT University Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 01/2023 - 03/2023
Visiting Research Scholar
Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany 06/2018 - Present
Ph.D. Thesis in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Science
Quantitative dissertation (using SQL, R, Python) on the influence of social, structural and reputational effects on entrepreuneurial success.
- Creation of various databases by scraping different data providers and collaborative platforms
- Natural language processing on linkedin and startup databases to extract features for network analysis
- Machine Learning and statistical analysis on large (> 5 billion records) github and stackoverflow datasets
Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands 02/2016 - 06/2016
Visiting Research Scholar
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 02/2014 - 06/2014
Visiting Research Scholar
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany 09/2011 - 03/2018
B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Business Administration & Engineering
Professional Development (Certification)
Business Science University, remote 06/2019 - Present
Applying enterprise-grade end-to-end projects (business & finance) using machine learning and web apps.
- Business Analysis (Data Science Foundations)
- Shiny Web Applications (ML & Business Consulting)
- Data Science for Business (Predictive Dashboards)
- Advanced Web App Development with AWS
DataCamp, remote 06/2019 - Present
Foundations of data science including statistics, inference, computer science, predictive analytics, machine learning and other technologies to gain insights from big data (using R, Pyhton and SQL).